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“Robodebt” is the label applied to an Australian government initiative starting in 2016 designed to increase recoveries of “overpayments” made to social security recipients, retrospectively dating back to 2010. The original objective was to recover $1.7 billion over [...]
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The ‘HAVES’ and the ‘HAVE YACHTS’: Socio-Spatial Struggles in London between the ‘Merely Wealthy’ and the ‘Super-Rich’
In the decade between 2007 and 2017 London changed fundamentally. This lecture is about how the actions of the [...]
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How can we close the widening gap between rich and poor? Political economist Frank Stilwell will discuss economic inequality, expose the scale of the problem and provide alternative strategies for a fairer society.
Event detailsDate and time: Tuesday 10 September, 6:00pm – [...]
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Check out Frank Stilwell speaking on the political economy of inequality during Social Sciences Week 2019 on 10 September, tickets available, HERE.
Why write a new book on economic inequality? During the six years since the French political economist Thomas Piketty [...]
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When: Wednesday 8 May 2018, 5.30-7.00pm
Where: Sydney Trades Hall Auditorium, 4-6 Goulburn St Sydney
Speakers: Frank Stilwell, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, University of Sydney
Helen Szoke, Chief Executive Officer, Oxfam Australia
John [...]
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Concern with economic inequality is a defining feature of the current era. Prominent international public figures, ranging from Pope Francis to Christine Lagarde, have declared global economic inequality to be the top priority.
What are the preconditions for moving from [...]
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The World Bank’s latest annual report on poverty and shared prosperity has an unsurprisingly positive message that only 10% of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty in 2015, which is the most recent year that available data allows for global poverty estimates to be [...]
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Scientific understanding of the consequences of inequality has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years. Thanks to the pioneering work of scholars such as Joseph Stiglitz, Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson, and Tony Atkinson, we know that persistent social and economic inequality exacts an [...]
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